Re: In My Dreams Everything's Orange: The Psychedelic Music Thread

Here's a few fairly recent favorites under the vast psychedelia umbrella...

Shapes Have Fangs - Like the Black Angels, they're from Austin and are veterans of the Psych Fest. Their debut, Dinner in the Dark, is pretty terrific.

Hopewell - I know Jason a little bit (he's got another band, Common Prayer, who are also phenomenal), and am definitely into Hopewell. He's been a part of Mercury Rev, too.

All Night Radio - Two dudes from Beachwood Sparks ditch the Gram Parsons vibe and head for outer space. They recorded just one album (Spirit Stereo Frequency), but it's well worth seeking out.

Woven Bones - Brooklyn-based, but I think connected to the Black Angels in some way or another. ETA - After a bit of further "research," it appears they may also be from Austin, and are either living in Brooklyn now or their Facebook page is totally fucking wrong.

The Make-Up - There's certainly quite a bit of psychedelia in what these Washington, DC legends did (and do - They're playing ATP in Asbury Park!)

Wooden Shjips - Weirdness from San Francisco.

The Bavarian Druglords - Pretty much a one-man operation. Syed is a good dude making some good music.

Re: In My Dreams Everything's Orange: The Psychedelic Music Thread

I really hope this thread doesn't die. Tame Impala and the Black Angels have been the majority of the psych I have been listening. I have listened to Phosphene Dream dream a ton of times. Does anyone have a recommendation for another Black Angels album. I also discovered Black Mountain when the FYF lineup came out.

Re: In My Dreams Everything's Orange: The Psychedelic Music Thread

Also, psychedelic music is hard for me to pinpoint as a genre, because a ton of bands just use the washed out fuzz, non-standard instruments and complex song structure forms nowadays.

I tend to think of psych as broadly falling into two categories: either (1) song-based tracks with unusual instrumentation, fuzz, vocal harmonies or other things that suggest expansive headspace (The Beatles/Zombies/Elephant Six school) or (2) the improv/drone/free-form based groups that rely more on expansive song structures, repetition and improvisation to get to the place they're seeking (Can/Grateful Dead/The Doors school.) The more song-based stuff seems to intertwine more with indie rock, as they've become increasingly linked. I'd say at this point most people think of psych more exclusively as bands rooted in the second school.

Re: In My Dreams Everything's Orange: The Psychedelic Music Thread

Lumerians are a Bay Area-based band my friend turned my onto a year ago. Their 2011 full-length, Transmalinnia is really groovy, surprisingly soulful, and really fucking weird. A great psych record, no doubt.

Thinking about this last night when I first saw the thread title and I'm honestly not sure how to really qualify a psychedelic record. Aren't psychedelics about what you see with your eyes (or what you think you see...heh)? I've done acid/shrooms around fifteen times and it was always about the visuals, with obvious audio enhancement and sensitivity.

Do you have to be on psychedelics to make a psychedelic record? Shouldn't each track be over seven minutes (sort of joking)? Heard Black Angels a few years ago and they seemed more hard rock...like one of the heavier Primal Scream records or Butthole Surfers or something. Whatever. I'm admittedly no expert on this label.